Taha Yassin Ramadan

Taha Yassin Ramadan (22 February 1938-20 March 2007) was a general of the Iraqi Army who served as Vice President of Iraq from 1991 to 2003 under President Saddam Hussein. He was executed by hanging in 2007.

Biography
Taha Yassin Ramadan was born in Mosul, Iraq to an Iraqi Kurdish family in 1938. During the Iran-Iraq War Ramadan served as Head of the Popular Army (1974-1991) and Deputy Secretary of the Regional Command of the Iraqi Regional Branch (1979-1991). Therefore, he played a major role in the fighting capabilities of the Iraqi Army.

In 1991, Ramadan became the Vice-President of Iraq under President Saddam Hussein, who was ironically an anti-Kurd who wanted to enforce "Arabization" (an anti-Kurdish holocaust). In 2002, when President George W. Bush of the United States and President Saddam Hussein were at odds, Ramadan suggested a duel between Bush and Saddam using similar weapons in a firefight between American and Iraqi delegates. The White House rejected the offer, and on 19 August 2003 he was captured by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) militia in Mosul during the Iraq War. In 2006 he was given a life imprisonment sentence, but in 2007 he was hanged when the sentence was deemed too lenient.